Friends of Puente Theatre

Alameda Theatre Company An avenue for Latin voices, Alameda Theatre Company aims to become a viable artistic network of professional Latin Canadian theatre artists in Canada. Inspired by the words of Salvador Allende, "You must continue to know that, sooner rather than later, grand avenues will be opened where free men will go to build a better society", Alameda Theatre Company's goal is to improve the human experience through art and creative exchange.

Atomic Vaudeville is an award-winning performance company based in Victoria, British Columbia. AV’s mandate is to encourage and support the professional development of new and emerging local actors, writers, musicians, artists and performersAtomic Vaudeville is an award-winning performance company based in Victoria, British Columbia. AV’s mandate is to encourage and support the professional development of new and emerging local actors, writers, musiciaomic Vaudeville is an award-winning performance company based in Victoria, British Columbia. AV’s mandate is to encourage and support the professional development of new and emerging local actors, writers, musicians, artists and performers.

Bayeux Arts Inc. is an independent publishing house located in Calgary, Alberta (Canada's Rocky Mountain province). It produces between six and ten titles per year and is about to commence an active reprint program. The company's list tends to reflect the individual tastes and interests of its founders.

Bayeux remains committed to producing books of beauty that build bridges across cultures. As its name was intended to suggest, the artistic nature of its books represents the cornerstone of its publishing program. Our list is deliberately eclectic and contains books that other publishers often shy away from publishing. We publish these books because they deserve publication and because they deserve to be read.

Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre was established in 2008. Led by veteran producer and director Brian Richmond, the founders of BBRT were convinced that the City of Victoria would support a new professional theatre that could offer its residents and visitors the opportunity to view world class productions of the great plays from the past while offering early career professional theatre artists the opportunity to work alongside some of Canada s most respected directors, designers and actors.

Caravan Farm Theatre is a professional outdoor theatre company based on an 80 acre farm, 11Km NW of Armstrong BC. Hailed as a national treasure, Caravan Farm Theatre is one of Canada's premiere professional outdoor theatre companies, and has been entertaining audiences young and old, from near and far, since 1978.

Canadian College of Performing Arts offers quality training in a broad spectrum of skills which will prepare the students for careers in the performance arts locally, nationally or internationally. The College provides a stimulating, positive and constructive environment where students are encouraged to develop high standards of work ethics and conduct which will serve them in any field of endeavour in the future.

Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria, is a unique non-profit organization that combines arts and social services to address the needs of immigrants and to promote the embracing of cultural diversity in our community. They offer services for newcomers as well as outreach and education in the community. Their Luminara Community Lantern Festival, takes place every summer in Beacon Hill Park and St. Ann's Academy grounds.

Intrepid Theatre is a charitable, not-for-profit organization in Victoria BC, which produces the annual Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival, Uno Fest and a year-round series of international theatre presentations.

MT Space exists to explore cultural intersections amongst people, their histories, and their forms of expression. Drawing upon the wealth of multicultural identities living in the Waterloo Region, The MT Space aims to increase activity between performance artists of many disciplines, cultural backgrounds and styles of practice. In The MT Space, various theatrical traditions and cultural orientations meet to develop hybrid forms of performance that will further define our community.

The Old Trout Puppet Workshop is a motley gang of artists churning out ideas for a whole heap of unlikely things: puppet shows for adults and children, sculptures, films, music, books, plays, paintings, and pedagogy. We struggle against terrible obstacles to create things we think might help make the cruel world slightly more hospitable to the yearning and fragile souls that inhabit it.

One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre is a "creation house" centering around a core ensemble of creative artists. Our mission is to create original, adult-oriented performance theatre for and about the community that supports us, presenting in our home venue in Calgary and wherever invited in the world. In addition, we nurture similar activities of others in several ways: with our annual festival of performative arts, theHigh Performance Rodeo; by presenting other creation-based projects at other times during our season; and by teaching activities focusing on creation, especially during our annual school, the Summer Lab Intensive.

Runaway Moon Theatre Magic, inventiveness, striking visuals – whether it’s a powerful Shakespearean play where actors share the stage with puppets, or a cast of a hundred brightly costumed community performers singing in four part harmony – you’ll find all these qualities in abundance in a Runaway Moon Theatre show.

Story Theatre Company is dedicated to creating productions for young people using traditional narrative material as its base. Our purpose is to create and perform material that is fun to watch, and at the same time enhances the curriculum in the areas of Language Arts, Music and Citizenship.

Suddenly Dance Theatre's vision is to support the development, creation, presentation, and preservation of the dance arts through collaboration and diverse media to reach the widest possible audience. We believe the collaboration of dance with other art forms is vital for audience development and for creative regeneration. In addition to touring and live performance, we recognize how global media can contribute to the mass dissemination of dance via television, gallery installation, photography and the internet.

Theatre SKAM is dedicated to creating and producing provocative theatrical works. Known for innovation and a sense of fun, SKAM was formed in 1995 with a mission to create theatre that is innovative and entertaining, and above all - never boring.

Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society (VIRCS) is a non-profit organization founded in November 1989 by three former refugees. The centre has 20 years of experience in helping immigrants, refugees, new Canadian citizens, and visible minorities settle and adapt into new lives in Greater Victoria. The multicultural staff annually serve an average of 2,500 clients from all over the world. VIRCS provides a wide range of services to its target group, assisting them with everything from settling in Victoria to finding a job.

For Your Inspiration is a new arts outreach initiative created by the Canada Council in collaboration with design company Cause + Effect to highlight 22 of Vancouver’s and Vancouver Island's most vibrant culturally diverse arts organizations!